Qi Shen wasn't the only one who couldn't hold on.

Fang Zhi's mindset was relatively stable, but Lin Yisheng was also getting restless at home, and Cheng Shiyan was about to return, so she had to resolve Fang Zhi's issues before he came back.

The living room, decorated in a light French style, is surrounded by a soft, off-white carpet, where two women sit on the floor.

Fang Zhi held her phone in both hands, her watery eyes fixed on Lin Yisheng.

"Sister Lin, is it really okay to contact him?"

The latter nodded. "Okay."

“Okay.” Fang Zhi’s eyelashes trembled. “Then I’ll remove my brother from the blacklist.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Yisheng hissed in surprise.

The student surpasses the teacher; she never taught Fang Zhi how to block people, yet she did it herself.

Lin Yisheng looked Fang Zhi up and down, who appeared fair-skinned, innocent, and well-behaved. She silently commented in her heart: "You can't judge a book by its cover. This is someone who can accomplish great things quietly."

"By the way." After the girl pulled the person off the blacklist, Lin Yisheng stopped her hand again. "Zhizhi, I've always wanted to know your attitude towards your brother. Do you like him or not? Can you accept him? Or do you want to completely sever your emotional ties with him?"

Fang Zhi was taken aback by Lin Yisheng's sudden question, and her fair face froze in surprise. "I..."

Seeing Fang Zhi's state, Lin Yisheng understood everything. She asked, "You yourself don't know either, right?"

Fang Zhi seemed lost in memories, murmuring softly:

"It's not that I don't know, I just can't define what my feelings are for my brother."

“Okay.” Lin Yisheng gave an OK sign. “Then let me ask you this: Do you feel disgusted when you see your brother’s face? Do you feel uncomfortable when he touches you? Like, when you live together.”

The woman's question was too direct and blunt, and Fang Zhi blushed slightly. "I have never disliked my brother."

The feeling of disgust was too heavy between him and her.

Even though he has many qualities, she doesn't like them.

But it can't be described as disgust; everything they did was based on him pulling her out of the shadow of her past nightmares, only later the nightmares turned into a cage.

Fang Zhi put down his phone, rolled up his sleeve, and showed the woman a section of his fair, smooth arm.

She stroked her arm, her voice gentle and calm:

"Sister Lin, do you know? When I was six years old, I had countless scars on my body, both new and old. Now you can't find any trace of them because of my brother. It was my brother who asked Sister Lin's husband to buy medicine from abroad."

Lin Yisheng was taken aback.

I never expected that Cheng Shiyan would be involved in this.

Fang Zhi stared down at his arm, his eyes lowered. "I'll always remember sitting alone in the courtyard, watching the different seasons..."

She told her story in a gentle, soft voice, while Lin Yisheng gazed at the girl's serene face.

Her clear eyes were never tainted by the injustices and sins she had suffered.

Lin Yisheng, who was initially angry, gradually calmed down and fell silent.

She knew Fang Zhi had a story, but she didn't know that her story was so painful.

As the only child in her family, she was pampered by her family. She couldn't imagine, and it was hard for others to understand, the feeling. But she knew that she must have been very sad at that time.

As she finished speaking, Fang Zhi's eyes reddened, and glistening tears slowly dripped from her eyelashes.

"Don't cry." Lin Yisheng pulled out a tissue and handed it to her, gently comforting her, "It's all over now."

"Hmm." Fang Zhi took the tissue, wiped away her tears, and spoke with a slight nasal tone. "Like what Sister Lin asked me, I don't feel disgusted when I see my brother. At first, I couldn't accept this change in feelings when he touched me, but later I wasn't so resistant. I just want to live a normal life."

"Zhizhi." Lin Yisheng paused for a moment, her expression serious. "You have your brother in your heart. You've already fallen for him without knowing it. It's just that you can't distinguish between gratitude and love, or perhaps Qi Shen's actions are making you run away from the fact that you've fallen for him."

Only then did he realize that the paper in his hand was tightly clenched into a ball.

Lin Yisheng then asked, "If Qi Shen and you can't reconcile your views, what will you choose?"

Fang Zhi thought for a long time before slowly saying, "If I have the ability, I will choose to leave. Sister Lin, a person cannot live in one place for their whole life. Without my brother, there will be no one else by my side. I will let him know that it is not because of feelings but because of support. I hope he can learn to respect and support my choices and career."

"Okay." Lin Yisheng smiled slightly. "Get in touch with your brother. Don't be too aggressive. Take it one step at a time."

Men like Qi Shen or her husband Cheng Shiyan, who live at the top of the pyramid and have never been to the mortal world, can easily get whatever they want in their lives.

They are used to having the final say and being in control; it's difficult to change their minds without taking a truly tough stance.

"Yes." Fang Zhi nodded. "I know, I have to finish my university studies first, no matter what."

Fang Zhi didn't choose to call Qi Shen; direct verbal negotiation would be too demanding in terms of adaptability and thinking. In this respect, she was as naive as a fledgling bird, no match for him, who was steeped in the cutthroat world of business.

Lin Yisheng left Fang Zhi some space, and Fang Zhi sat in the living room for a long time before finally editing the text message and sending it to him.

-

Qi Shen crossed his legs, his refined and handsome face expressionless. His clean fingertips lightly tapped the cone-shaped surface of his fingertips as they swept across the faces in the conference room. "The WTS project is a key project for the company in the second half of the year. I gave you a month to prepare the proposal. Are you satisfied with the proposal you gave me?"

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried an air of authority without anger.

In the huge conference room, the staff sitting on both sides all had their heads down, feeling the oppressive atmosphere emanating from the man at the head of the table, and they didn't dare to breathe loudly.

The air was deathly still when the man's phone rang, breaking the oppressive silence.

Qi Shen's eyes flickered, and he glanced at his phone screen.

Ha, his little girl even knows to remove him from the blacklist; they can't wait any longer.

The thought that the girl was one step closer to returning to his side made the man's icy aura dissipate slightly.

Qi Shen calmly withdrew his gaze, glanced at his subordinates, and said, "Meeting adjourned. I want to see a completely new plan next week."

As soon as he finished speaking, no one around him dared to move.

It wasn't until Qi Shen took the lead in retrieving his phone and leaving the meeting room that everyone came to their senses.

As the subordinates walked out in twos and threes, they complained to their companions, "Our president has been acting really strange lately, like he's been replaced. Where is our gentle and refined President Qi, who is always kind and gentle to everyone?"

"Keep your voice down, do you want to be singled out and criticized?"